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- On May 6, 1954, EnglandΓÇÖs
- Roger Bannister ran a mile
- in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds.
- It was the first time anyone
- had ever run a mile in
- under four minutes.
-
- Until RogerΓÇÖs run, most people thought it
- was impossible for a person to run a mile in
- less than four minutes. (The record that
- Roger broke -- 4 minutes 1.4 seconds --
- had been set in 1945 by SwedenΓÇÖs Gunder
- Haag.) Later in 1954, Roger ran the mile in
- less than four minutes for a second time.
- He beat AustraliaΓÇÖs John Landy, in a race
- known as the Mile of the Century.
-
- When he ran his miracle mile, Roger
- was a 25-year-old medical student at